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Oracle and the AI Boom's Hidden Debt Bomb

inc.com
6 points·by PessimalDecimal·28 дней назад·0 comments

OpenAI co-founder discloses nearly $30B stake, financial ties to Altman

reuters.com
4 points·by PessimalDecimal·2 месяца назад·0 comments

158-year-old home distilling ban ruled unconstitutional

reuters.com
4 points·by PessimalDecimal·3 месяца назад·2 comments

Colorado Bill: Age Attestation on Computing Devices

leg.colorado.gov
3 points·by PessimalDecimal·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

US billionaires race China to moon

reuters.com
4 points·by PessimalDecimal·5 месяцев назад·1 comments

Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code

fortune.com
5 points·by PessimalDecimal·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

The Hater's Guide to Nvidia

wheresyoured.at
8 points·by PessimalDecimal·7 месяцев назад·0 comments

Britain to make refugee status temporary

reuters.com
12 points·by PessimalDecimal·8 месяцев назад·1 comments

OpenAI Seeks Government Backing to Boost AI Investments

barrons.com
2 points·by PessimalDecimal·8 месяцев назад·0 comments

Ransomware Detection in Google Drive

workspace.google.com
5 points·by PessimalDecimal·9 месяцев назад·0 comments

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PessimalDecimal
·5 дней назад·discuss
Lots of unsubstantiated claims here
PessimalDecimal
·16 дней назад·discuss
Do you think this is a global phenomenon or regional maybe just in the US or the Anglosphere?
PessimalDecimal
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
These are still at currently subsidized prices. We'll see if they think they're getting $1500/month of value when that buys significantly fewer tokens.
PessimalDecimal
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Probably not so coincidental!

At least part of this is slated for employee stock comp. Could be to keep their talent from running.
PessimalDecimal
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Other vibe coders?
PessimalDecimal
·2 месяца назад·discuss
In what world is China less "protectionist" than the US?
PessimalDecimal
·2 месяца назад·discuss
I don't know what definition of AI you're using, but plenty of ML algorithms operate deterministically, let alone most other logic programmed into a computer. I don't see how your statement can be right given that these other software systems also operate in the real world.
PessimalDecimal
·2 месяца назад·discuss
History is littered with great ideas that lost people's interest and focus. A sad realization is that the focus may never return to them either.
PessimalDecimal
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Is this a submarine? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
PessimalDecimal
·3 месяца назад·discuss
That worked out, for the founders of frontier labs at least.
PessimalDecimal
·3 месяца назад·discuss
What you're doing here is part of the problem. "Suck it up, buttercup!"

Many men would rather not work and deal with the financial and social consequences of that than deal with the toxicity both in the workplace and later on if they talk about it.
PessimalDecimal
·3 месяца назад·discuss
There's been a lot of talk about "toxic masculinity" over the years but I've heard of and would worry about the female equivalent if I were considering a role in nursing as a man. Many stories where the only man in the room is expected to be, simultaneously, a punching bag, a mediator for drama, and a willing recipient of sexual advances. Seems awful
PessimalDecimal
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I've been doing this with my kids, at least to some extent. It offers first rung on a ladder to understanding that complex things can be understood as cooperation among simpler parts. We'll see how it works out but so far it seems to be working.

It's actually great since a lot of older technology is cheap and still readily available. My little ones love listening to old records, control the playback speed and hear the music go up in pitch if the RPMs are set too high. We look at the tracks on the vinyl under a microscope at talk about how the music is written on it that way. VHS an audio cassettes offer their own talking points.

For computers, we don't literally use a Commodore 64 but we run simpler, old software on new hardware. Mostly because a lot of newer education software is somehow also funded by injecting ads into the games (awful). But there is also some good "modern" educations software worth checking out. I highly recommend gcompris.net.
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Didn't random companies add block chain to their names only just a few years ago and get 30+% jumps in stock price immediately?
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
What you describe is more or less exactly algorithmic information theory. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory:

"Informally, from the point of view of algorithmic information theory, the information content of a string is equivalent to the length of the most-compressed possible self-contained representation of that string. A self-contained representation is essentially a program—in some fixed but otherwise irrelevant universal programming language—that, when run, outputs the original string."

Where it gets tricky is the "self-contained" bit. It's only true with the model weights as a code book, e.g. to allow the LLM to "know about" Slack.
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
"[T]here is an entire cohort of people who can think about specifying systems but lack the training to sdo so so using the current methods and see a lower barrier to entry in the natural language."

"Specifying" is the load-bearing term there. They are describing what they want to some degree, how how specifically?
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
That sounds more like mimicry without understanding, like playing the glass bead game.
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It's a South Park reference. It very much is equating the accent with stupidity and backwardness.

In their defense, they make fun of nearly everyone. But they definitely were mocking White Southerners there.
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I subscribe to the second point of view. Several companies fall in that bucket. Oracle comes to mind.
PessimalDecimal
·4 месяца назад·discuss
That's what it was like when you started out, but did you eventually learn that code? Imagine constantly getting out back into square one on understanding a legacy code base you just inherited, forever. This is what it's be like with constant LLM-induced churn on code repositories.